Thanks, Jody. Those pictures touch something deep in me, something that squirms at being forced to acknowledge that we all carry the potential for great evil, and that manipulators like Hitler know how to bring it out and harness it for their own evil purposes.

"It can't happen here" is one of the most dangerous phrases in the English language (and the title of a novel in the 1930s by Upton Sinclair, warning of how tyranny creeps up on us on little cat feet). Conservatives respond with ridicule when I express concern about some modern day sign that we're drifting down the path the Germans took, but seeing those pictures reminded me that I'm right, and stiffened my resolve to practice that eternal vigilance. It hasn't happened here only because nervous nellies like me don't shut up and instead keep pushing back.